Bus collides with log truck

This photo, provided by the Jones County Sheriff’s Office, shows the impact of a Duplin County school bus and a log truck in rural Jones County on Wednesday morning.

Submitted photo

By Christopher Thomas / Halifax News Service

Published: Wednesday, August 27, 2014 at 07:04 PM.

POLLOCKSVILLE — An early morning wreck in Jones County sent a Duplin County Schools student and a bus driver to the hospital.

According to a spokesperson for the Jones County Sheriff’s Office, at approximately 5:50 a.m. this morning, a Duplin County school bus and a tractor trailer stacked with lumber collided on N.C. 41 west about one mile inside the Duplin-Jones counties line. The spokesperson said injuries were minor.

Both lanes of the highway were shut down.

According to a release from Duplin County Schools, the bus had just started its route to East Duplin High School at the time of the wreck.

Along with the Jones County Sheriff’s Office, Highway Patrol, Potters Hill and Hargett’s Crossroads Fire Departments, as well as Duplin and Jones Counties EMS, responded to the wreck.

According to Duplin County Schools, one student and the bus driver were taken to Vidant Duplin Hospital and the other student was not injured.

Christopher Thomas is a reporter with the Jacksonville Daily News.

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POLLOCKSVILLE — An early morning wreck in Jones County sent a Duplin County Schools student and a bus driver to the hospital.

According to a spokesperson for the Jones County Sheriff’s Office, at approximately 5:50 a.m. this morning, a Duplin County school bus and a tractor trailer stacked with lumber collided on N.C. 41 west about one mile inside the Duplin-Jones counties line. The spokesperson said injuries were minor.

Both lanes of the highway were shut down.

According to a release from Duplin County Schools, the bus had just started its route to East Duplin High School at the time of the wreck.

Along with the Jones County Sheriff’s Office, Highway Patrol, Potters Hill and Hargett’s Crossroads Fire Departments, as well as Duplin and Jones Counties EMS, responded to the wreck.

According to Duplin County Schools, one student and the bus driver were taken to Vidant Duplin Hospital and the other student was not injured.